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Learning VMware vCloud Air

By : Yohan Wadia
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Learning VMware vCloud Air

By: Yohan Wadia

Overview of this book

This book is intended for cloud engineers or administrators who wish to explore and gain hands-on experience of VMware vCloud Air. To make the most of this book, it would be beneficial to have a bit of familiarity with basic VMware vCloud concepts, but no prior experience is required.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Index

The virtual machine power operations

Once you have created your virtual machines, you can now perform power operations on them. But before we see how, let's learn the power options provided by vCloud Air.

Note

Advanced power options, such as Suspend and Resume, work well when the virtual machine has VMware Tools installed on it. By default, the templates provided by VMware all have VMware Tools installed and preconfigured on it.

The following table will take you through the power operations for a virtual machine:

State

Description

Power On

Powers ON a virtual machine.

Suspend/ Resume

Suspends a running virtual machine by freezing its state. Suspending a VM does not power off the VM. It preserves the virtual machine's state. You can resume from a suspended virtual machine. When resuming the virtual machine is powered back on and restored to its last state.

Reset

Power cycles the virtual machine. Resetting the virtual machine clears the memory and cache, equivalent to a reboot...